Felicity Chen

“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I stayed at home because I prefer to be in my own room, with my own family, or in my garden — which is lovely this year…

(Felix Mendelssohn, in a letter to Ignaz Moscheles, 1832)”
― Felix Mendelssohn

“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the sky when you're experiencing a block, waiting for inspiration to strike you. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov didn't like each other and agreed on very few things, but they were of one opinion on this: you had to write constantly. If you can't write a major work, write minor trifles. If you can't write at all, orchestrate something.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich